page_title: Backnang
section_title: Mayors
hierarchical_section_title: Backnang / Mayors
caption_attribution_description: Stiftshof, Backnang, Germany
context_page_description: Backnang is a town in Germany in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, roughly 30 km northeast of Stuttgart. Its population has increased greatly over the past century, from 7,650 in 1900 to 35,761 in 2005.
  Backnang was ceded to Württemberg by the Baden in 1325. Backnang has been known as Gerberstadt due to several tanneries and leather factories, and wool and cloth mills that dominated Backnang's industries. Today, all of these have vanished, and instead, telecommunication companies such as Ericsson and Tesat-Spacecom dominate the town's industries. The Stiftskirche, formerly the church of Backnang Abbey, dates back to the 12th century.
  Backnang hosts the annual Strassenfest during the last weekend in June. It has been founded as a street festival where local sports and cultural clubs offered drinks and foods. The traditional opening of the Strassenfest is marked with cannon shots from the city tower at 6 pm on Friday and ends with the Zapfenstreich on the following Monday at 11 pm. The Strassenfest typically attracts more than 100,000 spectators.
context_section_description: Before 1930 the title for this position was Stadtschultheiß. In 1930 the title became Bürgermeister (Mayor), and in 1956 with the elevation of Backnang to a "large district town," the title was changed to Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor).
  1901–1921: Hermann Eckstein
  1921–1945: Albert Rienhardt
  1946–1966: Walter Baumgärtner
  1966–1986: Martin Dietrich (1929-2012)
  1986–1994: Hannes Rieckhoff (born 1944)
  1994–2002: Jürgen-Heinrich Schmidt (born 1942)
  since 2002: Frank Nopper, (born 1961), reelected in February 2010 and in February 2018
caption: Stiftshof, the local court, on the right
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